Arts & Life

Meanwhile, in South Dakota, FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole persuades his former employee Diane to join him on a trip to Buckhorn to look into a “Blue Rose” case. There, he and his associates examine Garland Briggs’ surprisingly young-looking corpse, and interrogate William Hastings, who breaks down weeping as he …

Photo Laurie Davidson and Olivia DeJonge in “Will.” Credit Alex Bailey/TNT Shakespeare goes steampunk in an imagining of his youth. And “POV” presents an urgent and mournful documentary about the Syrian crisis. What’s on TV WILL 9 p.m. on TNT. A young William Shakespeare (Laurie Davidson) is transported from sleepy …

Photo Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performing in 2009. Credit Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Thousands of festivalgoers watched as an acrobat plunged to his death at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid on Friday before the punk band Green Day took the stage. The group began their headlining set 30 minutes …

The piece is part of a retrospective of some 25 installations by Mr. Boltanski at MAMbo, Bologna’s municipal museum of contemporary art. With old, new and revisited work, the exhibition, curated by Danilo Eccher, touches on leitmotifs that have infused Mr. Boltanski’s striking production of Conceptual works since the 1960s, …

Photo Laurie Davidson in “Will,” a TNT drama that depicts the youthful Shakespeare as he enters the London theatrical world. Credit Alex Bailey/TNT William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, and, as the scholar Gary Taylor once wrote, “we have been reinventing him ever since.” That’s true not only of …

Beethoven’s own intentions were not unambiguous, either. When this greatest of German composers worked on what would be his final symphony in the 1820s, his admiration for Napoleon had curdled, amid political repression, into disillusionment. In that sense, the poet Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” an invocation of a humanity …

“There may soon be a time when the general public completely forgets that reggae music comes from Jamaica,” said the British reggae journalist Reshma B. Photo Members of the audience in Brooklyn. Credit Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Without the benefit of major-label backing or even a mainstream …

What’s the most surprising thing you learned while writing it? How much worse the history was than I had thought. How shocking it was. If we go back to the point that I was researching and that my father couldn’t talk about, 1959, the sect was taken over by a …

While the opera was in development, Blitzstein shared “The Nickel Under Your Foot,” a prostitute’s showstopping song about the power of money, with the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who responded: What about the other “prostitutes” in society? (At the top of the finished score, Blitzstein wrote, “To Bert Brecht.”) Photo …

Policy experts say that Mr. Hui’s troubles at Hidden Agenda, the beating heart of Hong Kong’s “live house” indie music scene, illustrate how zoning and performance rules in this city of 7.4 million are so restrictive that they impede artistic expression and cultural development. Photo Hui Chung-wo, the owner of …